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Feasts

Hieromartyr Artemon the Presbyter, of Laodicea (284-305);
Martyrs Demas and Protion, and those with them, by beheading (285-305);
Martyr Sabbas the Goth, at Buzau in Wallachia (372) (see also April 15);
Saint Isaac the Syrian (Isaac of Monteluco), Abbot of Spoleto, Italy (c. 550) (see also April 11 - West);
Venerable monk-martyrs David, John and Menas, of Palestine, shot by archers (after 636);
Venerable Anthusa the Virgin-martyr of Constantinople (809);
Venerable Athanasia the Wonderworker (Athanasia of Aegina), Abbess, of Aegina (850) (see also April 18);
Saint Basil the Confessor, Bishop of Parium (9th century);
Saint Sergius II, Patriarch of Constantinople (1019);
Saint Vissia, a virgin-martyr in Fermo near Ancona in Italy under Decius (c. 250);
Saint Victor of Braga (São Victor), a catechumen martyred in Braga in Portugal under Diocletian, thus baptised in his own blood (c. 300);
Saint Julius I the Great, Pope of Rome, defended St Athanasius against his Arian accusers, and also built many churches (352);
Hieromartyr Zeno of Verona, Bishop of Verona (371);
Saint Constantine, the first Bishop of Gap in France (529);
Saint Wigbert (690);
Saint Tetricus, Abbot of St Germanus in Auxerre, then Bishop of Auxerre by popular acclamation, murdered in his sleep (707);
Saint Damian of Pavia, Bishop of Pavia in Lombardy in Italy, who vigorously opposed Monothelitism (710);
Saint Erkemboden, a monk at Sithin in Saint-Omer in France, later Bishop of Thérouanne (714);
Saint Alferius, (Alpherius, Adalfericus), monk, founder of the Monastery of La Cava (1050);
Saint Sylvester, Bishop of Pereyaslav and Igumen of Vydubychi Monastery (1123);
Saint Basil of Ryazan, Bishop of Ryazan (1295) (see also May 21, June 10, July 3, and July 10);
Venerable Acacius of Kapsokalyvia Skete, Mount Athos (1730);
New Hieromartyr Demetrius Rozhdestvensky, Protopresbyter of Alma-Ata (1921);
New Hieromartyr Sergius (1938);
Other Commemorations:
Deposition of the Cincture (Sash, Zone, Belt) of the Most Holy Theotokos in Constantinople (942) (see also August 31);
Synaxis of the Murom Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (early 12th century);
Venerable Neophytus the Recluse, of Cyprus, Wonderworker (1204) (feast day January 24);
Synaxis of the Belinich Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1876);
Repose of Archbishop Juvenal of Vilnius, Lithuania, monk of Optina Monastery (1904)
Proclamation of the autocephaly of the Church of Georgia (1917)